Working with web server properties files

You can use properties files to create, modify, or delete web server properties.

Before you begin

Determine the changes that you want to make to your Web server configuration or its configuration objects.

Start the wsadmin scripting tool. To start wsadmin using the Jython language, run the wsadmin -lang jython command from the bin directory of the server profile.

About this task

Using a properties file, you can create a web server instance. You can also modify or delete web server properties.

Run administrative commands using wsadmin to extract a properties file for a web server, validate the properties, and apply them to your configuration.

Table 1. Actions for web server properties files. You can create web server instances and modify or delete web server properties.
Action Procedure
create 1. Create a properties file that specifies the following commands in the header and sets values for web server properties:
CreateDeleteCommandProperties=true
SKIP=false
commandName=createWebServer

2. Run the applyConfigProperties command.

modify Edit properties and then run the applyConfigProperties command to modify the value of a custom property.
delete Specify the properties to delete in the properties file and then run the deleteConfigProperties command to delete a property. If the deleted property has a default value, the property is set to the default value.
create Property Not applicable
delete Property Not applicable

Optionally, you can use interactive mode with the commands:

AdminTask.command_name('-interactive')

Procedure

Results

You can use the properties file to configure and manage the web server instance and its properties.

What to do next

Save the changes to your configuration.




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